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General bibliography:

Constantinople

J. Ebersolt, Sanctuaires de Byzance : recherches sur les anciens tresors des eglises de Constantinople (Paris 1921)

Janin, Raymond, Constantinople byzantine : développement urbain et repertoire topographique (Paris, 1950)

Constantinople byzantine : dévelopement urbain et repertoire topographique. 2. ed. (Paris, 1964)

La geographie ecclesiastique de l'empire byzantin: Premiere partie: Le siege de Constantinople et le Patriarcat Oecumenique. - Tome 3: Les eglises et les monastères. (Paris : Institut Francais d'Etudes Byzantines, 1953.) Edited by V. Laurent

G. Downey, 'Notes on the topography of Constantinople', Art Bulletin 34 (1952), 235-236

R. Guilland, Etudes de topographie de Constantinople byzantine. (Paris, 1969)

C. Mango, The Art of the Byzantine Empire 312-1453. Sources and documents (Englewood Cliffs 1972; regularly reprinted)

W. Müller-Wiener, Bildlexikon zur Topographie Istanbuls (Tübingen, 1977)

C. Mango, Le développement urbain de Constantinople (IVe - VIIe siècle) (Paris, 1985)

C. Mango, Studies on Constantinople (Variorum, 1993)

Constantinople and its hinterland (Papers of the 27th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, 1993, Oxford), ed. C. Mango (Aldershot, 1995)

P. Magdalino, Constantinople Médiévale (Paris, 1996)

See an important collection of articles in Constantinople: The Fabric of the City Dumbarton Oaks Symposium 1998, in DOP 54 (2000)

 A. Berger, 'Streets and Public Spaces in Constantinople ', DOP 54 (2000)

Another important collection in N. Necipoglu ed., Byzantine Constantinople: Monuments, Topography and Everyday Life (Leiden, 2001)

Paul Magdalino, 'Medieval Constantinople: Built Environment and Urban Development', in A. Laiou ed., The Economic History of Byzantium (2002), online at Dumbarton Oaks

John Freely and Ahmet S. Cakmak, The Byzantine Monuments of Istanbul (Cambridge, 2004)

Jonathan Harris, Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium (Hambledon, 2007)

On the Internet see

Byzantine Architecture Project, at Princeton

Istanbul documentation project

Byzantium 1200

For a more political angle see, e.g.,  History of Byzantium

Istanbul

A eulogy by Nabi Effendi

·  S. Gerasimos, La fondation de Constantinople et de Saint-Sophie dans les traditions turques (Paris, 1990)

·  Donald Preziosi, 'Byzantine Constantinople & Ottoman Istanbul : evolution in a millennial imperial iconography' in The Ottoman city and its parts : urban structure and social order, edited by Irene A. Bierman, Rifa'at A. Abou-El-Haj, Donald Preziosi (New Rochelle, N.Y : A.D. Caratzas, c1991.)

·  Philip Mansel, Constantinople, City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 (London, 1995). Chapter 1

Early Visitors

·  Pierre Gilles, 1490-1555, De topographia Constantinopoleos (1561), translated as The antiquities of Constantinople : (London, 1729) Reprinted (Italica Press, 1986)

·  Rosaccio, Giuseppe, ca. 1530-ca. 1620, Viaggio da Venetia : a Costantinopoli per mare, e per terra & insieme quello di terra santa Da Gioseppe Rosaccio con brevita descritto. (Venice, 1598., reprinted Rome : Edizioni della Laguna, 1992)

·  Grelot, Guillaume-Joseph, Relation nouvelle d'un voyage de Constantinople : Enrichie de plans levez par l'auteur sur les lieux, et des figures de tout ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable dans cette ville Presentée au roy. (Paris : Chez la veuve de D. Foucault, 1681).

·  Lavergne, Gabriel Joseph de, Comte de Guilleragues, Relation veritable de ce qui est passe a Constantinople avec M. de Guilleragues, Ambassadeur de France. (Paris: P. de Touche, Chio, 1682).

·  De Carbognano, Cosimo Comidas, fl. 1750-1800, Descrizione topografica dello stato presente di Costantinopoli arricchita di figure ed. Vincenzo Ruggieri (Roma : Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 1992.) Facsimile reprint of edition originally published Bassano, 1794.

·  James Dallaway, Constantinople ancient and modern : with excursions to the shores and islands of the archipelago and to the Troad (1797)

·  Sutton, Robert. The despatches of Sir Robert Sutton, ambassador in Constantinople ... 1953

·  Embassy to Constantinople : the travels of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , edited and compiled by Christopher Pick (1988)

The nineteenth century

·  Bourlet de Vauxcelles, Simon-Jacques. Lettres sur Constantinople, de M. l'abbe Sevin (1802)

·  Castellan, A. L. Lettres sur la Grèce, l'Hellespont, et Constantinople : faisant suite aux lettres sur la Morée (1811)

·  C. MacFarlane, Constantinople in 1828 : a residence of sixteen years , 2d ed (1829)

·  Xenos, Stefanos Th. The devil in Turkey, or, Scenes in Constantinople (1851)

·  L. Enault, Constantinople et la Turquie : tableau historique, pittoresque, statistique et moral de l'Empire Ottoman (1855)

·  T. Allom, Constantinople and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor [1845?]

·  A. Smith, A month at Constantinople (London : D. Bogue, 1851)

·  C. Sinaites, Constantiniade : ou description de Constantinople, composee par un Philologue et Archeologue. (1861)

·  C. Smith, The embassy of Sir William White at Constantinople , 1886-1891 (Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1979)

·  L. Rousset, De Paris a Constantinople 2nd ed (1892)

·  F. Elliot, Diary of an idle woman in Constantinople (1893)

·  F. Marion Crawford, Constantinople illustrated by Edwin L. Weeks. (1895)

·  E. de Amicis, Constantinople , translated from the Italian by Caroline Tilton. [1896]

The twentieth century

·  V. Fane, Betwixt two seas : poems and ballads (written at Constantinople and Therapia). 1900

·  H. O. Dwight, Constantinople and its problems : its peoples, customs, religions and progress (1901)

·  E. Driault, Before Constantinople (1919)

·  G. Washburn, Fifty years in Constantinople and recollections of Robert College (1909)

·  Ellenikos filologikos sullogos, Istanbul. Pentekontaeteris, 1861-1911 . (1913-1921)

·  E. Pears, Forty Years in Constantinople : Recollections of Sir Edwin Pears 1873-1915 (1916; reprinted)

·  G. La Rochefoucauld, Constantinople avec Loti c1928

Rediscovery

·  W. R. Lethaby, The church of Sancta Sophia Constantinople : a study of Byzantine building (1894)

·  Bey Jalal Asad, Constantinople de Byzance à Stamboul (1909)

·  N. B. Teteriatnikov, The Fossati restoration and the work of the Byzantine Institute (Washington, 1998).

·  W. S. George, The church of Saint Eirene at Constantinople (1913)

·  J. Ebersolt, Mission archéologique de Constantinople (Paris 1921)

Crisis

·  L. D. Einstein, Inside Constantinople : a diplomatist's diary during the Dardanelles Expedition, April-September, 1915. (1917)

·  H. Stürmer, Deux ans de guerre à Constantinople : études de morale et politique allemandes et jeunes-turques. (1917)

·  H. Morgenthau, Extracts from ambassador Henry Morgenthau's "Secrets of the Bosphorus" : Constantinople 1913-1916. [n.d]

·  A. M. Andreades, De la population de Constantinoples [sic] sous les empereurs byzantins (1920)

·  R. Puaux, Constantinople et la question d'Orient (1920)

·  D. H. Loch, Constantinople during the crisis (1923)

·  The present danger to the oecumenical patriarchate : report of public meeting held at University College, London, 17th March 1925 (1925)

Travel

·  George Young, Constantinople (1926)

·  E. Mamboury, The Tourists' Istanbul (Istanbul, 1953)

·  Harold Lamb, Constantinople, birth of an empire. (1958)

·  Philip Sherrard, Constantinople : iconography of a sacred city (1965)

·  Michael Maclagan, The city of Constantinople (1968)

·  H. Sumner-Boyd and John Freely, Strolling through Istanbul (Istanbul 1972)

·  David Jacobs, Cyril A. Mango, Constantinople: City on the Golden Horn

·  Patrick Leigh Fermor , Between the woods and the water : on foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland : the middle Danube to the Iron Gates

·  Isaac Asimov , Constantinople; The Forgotten Empire.

·  W. Dalrymple, From the Holy Mountain (London, 1997)

·  John Freely, Istanbul : The Imperial City (Penguin, 1998)

·  John Freely, The companion guide to Istanbul and around the Marmara (Woodbridge, 2000).

Istanbul Tourist guide 1

Istanbul Tourist guide 2

and several more

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